Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10613, Abel Edgerton, Conn. Continental

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Edgerton, Abel
S. 10613
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9054 Connecticut
Abel Edgerton of Tolland in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Conn. Continental Regt. commanded by Captain See of the Regt. commanded by Col. Gallup in the Continental State Troops
1 yr. 6 mo. 18 days
Conn. Continental. Records completed 6-1-1833.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 61 Dollars 97 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of March, 1833 and sent to Parrish Tolland. Conn.
Arrears to the 4th of March: 1833 $123 71 3/4 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sep. 1. 33 409 3/4
$164 92 3/4
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Buelock Clerk Book 6 Vol. 3 Page 12

State of Connecticut County of Tolland Jr. Tolland Probate District
On this 2 d day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the district of Tolland being a Court of record having a clerk & seal, Abel Edgerton late of Coventry in S d County now residing in S d town of Tolland in the State of Connecticut aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated viz, that in the fall of the year 1776 he enlisted at Norwich in this State as a private soldier for two months & served that time out under Capt. Benajah Loffingwell Lieut. Joseph Cressy Ensigns Jonathan Bushnell, Daniel Tracy orderly Serg t the other non commissioned officers names he does not recollect all the above named officers he believes to be dead. That he was marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island from thence went down to Bristol in S d State of R.I. & landed at Warren a town adjoining S d Bristol & from there marched to S d Bristol where he remained until S d term of two months for which he enlisted had expired when he returned home - during the above time he served as cook for the Serjeants Corporals & musk in said company for the steward he knows of no person living who was with him in S d campaign and has no other proof except the deposition of Capt. John Ladd of S d Coventry which deposi- tion accompanies this declaration. - He further states that in the spring of the year 1777 he again enlisted into Capt. Lee's Company in which Phineas Cook was Lieut. & Captain and Ensign for the term of one year in Col. Nathan Gulliver's Reg t of State Troops & served the whole term of S d year in the revolutionary war at New London & Gro- ton in Connecticut, & Newport in the State of Rhode Island said Reg t was divided & stationed at different posts along the coast; he also states that he was Newport when the French Fleet entered there - and at the time the British

that left the Vessel was in the battle & retreat & was dismissed from service in the Spring of the year 1778, but had no written discharge, the day he was dismissed not remembered during his term of service. Ebenezer Dyer formerly of Norwich in this State now deceased, was with him in the same company in which he served - whose deposition respecting his service is now in the War Office at Washington with a former application which he made for a pension under the former pension law to which he alluded & he would refer the Secretary of the War Department for further particulars respecting the proof of his years service as he knows of no persons now living who was in his company -
He further states that about the first of August 1778 he enlisted for two months into the Naval Service of the United States on board the Sloop of War Revenge mounting fourteen guns commanded by Capt. Timothy Dyer of Norwich in which then lay in the harbor at New London Connecticut. They cruised during his term of two months about Long Island, in the Sound & off Sandy Hook. That the Revenge with four other Sails of Revolution, have time went into Oyster Bay Long Island & took two British Armed Vessels, & three other British vessels & brought them into New London out of his privateers, they took twenty pieces of Cannon - nothing else very material occurred during the cruise but that they were frequently chased by British armed vessels & frequently chased them - That he has no proof of his naval service except the deposition of Capt. Ebenezer Dyer of Norwich which accompanies this declaration - And he further states that in the fore part of May 1780 he enlisted into Capt. Whilings Company - Allen Lieut. in Col. Samuel B. Webb
Regiment in the Continental Army & was mustered at Orange Town four miles from Fort Lee opposite New York in the State of New Jersey & was marched to West Point soon after Major Andre's execution where they remained most of the time to the end of six months, were discharged at what is called the Highland, he had no written discharge as he recollects if he had he has lost the same. Dudley Tracy of Franklin in the County of New London served in the same Company & Regt. with him during his term & can testify to his service whose deposition accompanies this declaration -
In answer to the question proposed in pursuance of instructions from

The War Department the said Abel Edgerton states that he was born in the town of Warwick that since which is now Franklin on the 16 th day of September 1760. That he has no record of his age. That he lived in Franklin or Warwick until he was thirty years old. That he resided there at all times when called into the United States service from Franklin removed to Coos County where he resided until the first of August 1835 when he removed to Tolland where he now resides. He always entered the service by voluntary enlistment. — The Officer, he does not name more particularly than in his previous declaration. That he never received a written discharge from the service as he remembers. That Capt. Daniel Priggs & Joseph Barnham Jr. are known to him in his present neighborhood & can testify to his veracity & their belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Abel Edgerton
We Daniel Priggs & Joseph Barnham Jr. residing in the town of Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abel Edgerton who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy one years of age. That he is a man of truth and veracity his reputation and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Daniel Priggs
Joseph Barnham Jr.
And the said Board do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier. And as he states and the Board further certifies that it appears to them that Capt. Daniel Priggs & Joseph Barnham Jr. who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Tolland in Tolland County and both are credible persons, that this statement is entitled to credit. And they further find that Capt. Asahel Sudd of Coos County & Capt. Dudley Hays of Franklin

proceedings declaration whose deposition is accompany the  sd declaration and credible witness sworn that their statements are entitled to full belief -
I Joseph Howard Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Tolland do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abel Edgerton of Tolland in Tolland County for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office this 2 nd day of August A D 1832
Joseph Howard Clerk
Abel Edgerton No 2724
True copy of record examined & certified by J. Howard Clerk of the Court of Probate for Tolland Dist.
I Jeremiah Parish Judge of Probate for the District of Tolland in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Joseph Howard Esq. of Tolland in sd District is Clerk of sd Probate Court, duly appointed and sworn & legally authorized to do all the duties belonging to sd office of Clerk of Probate - and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates purporting to be his are genuine - also that the seal purporting to have been affixed to sd certificates by sd Clerk is the seal & the only genuine seal belonging to sd Probate office & that the same was thereunto affixed by my order - also that Capt Dudley Tracy whose deposition now accompanies this declaration is a man of veracity & entitled to full credit & belief as a witness
Jeremiah Parish

Rev War
10613
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 10613
Col. Edgerton Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 110
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Asher Ladd of Coos County in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut being Sixty Eight years of age do testify and say that in the year 1777 I was well acquainted with Abel Edgerton now an inhabitant of the town of Tolland in said Tolland County and have remained so to this date. I well recollect that he enlisted into a Company under the command of Captain Lacy in the Spring of said year 1777 and marched with said company to New London and served in said company in the army of the revolution at and New London, and at Groton in Connecticut and at Newport in the State of Rhode Island during the term of one year. I well recollect the said Edgerton leaving home in the Spring of 1777 and his returning in the Spring of 1778. I further testify and say that I also remember that the said Abel Edgerton left home for the service of the army of the Revolu- tion in the fall of the year 1776 and served a pe- riod of two months at Bristol in the State of Rhode Island under the command of Captain Benjamin Leffingwell of Norwich Lieutenant Colonel. I do not recollect the precise day or month when he left home or when he returned, but well re- collect his absence during this period. I also re- collect that I knew that said Abel Edgerton left home in the month of August 1778 for the purpose of serving on board the Sloop 'Revenge' under the command of Captain Parker of Nor- wich and returned after a period of about two months. He returned about the 1st of Nov

according to my best recollection, — Mr. Edger- ton and myself lived during that period in the same neighborhood and being a particular acquaintance, is the cause of my retaining those facts thus particularly, and further the deponent saith not. —
Ashe Ladd
Tolland County ss. town of Tolland Nov. 30. 1832 Then personally appeared Ashe Ladd the above named deponent and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts by him above subscribed. — I would further certify that the said Ashe Ladd is a credible witness Sworn before me
Loon P. Waldo Justice of Peace
Deposition of Capt. Ashe Ladd
Tolland County, Conn. ss. Clerk's office
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of Tolland County Court Ct. do hereby certify that Loon P. Waldo Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition of Capt. Ashe Ladd on the 30th day of November last, was duly sworn to by sd deponent was at that time & still is a Justice of peace in & for sd Tolland County legally appointed and sworn — and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions — and the signature to the above certificate is genuine, that it was by him there written in my presence —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 16th day of December A.D. 1832
Jeremiah Parish Clerk

Deposited of Capt Dudley Tracy
Due Private 1 st 6 th 18 days $ 61.97
J Panh

I Dudley Tracy of Franklin in the County of, New London & State of Connecticut aged seventy four years do testify and say that, Mr Abel Edgerton formerly of said Franklin now residing in Tolland in Tolland County, some time in the fore part of the month of May in the year 1780 enlisted into Col. Samuel B. Webbs Regiment of Infantry in a Company commanded by Whiting Capt for the term of six months in the Continental Army - and went to Orange town four miles from Fort Lee in New Jersey opposite New York where he was mustered and marched to West point. soon after Major Andrews Execution where he re- mained most of the time until the expiration of said six months and was regularly discharged at a place called the Highlands.
The reasons for my knowing that said Edgerton per- formed the tour of duty as above stated are that I was a soldier in the same Company with sd Edgerton & served in sd Company during the whole of sd term and well remember his serving in sd Company & Regiment as above stated. I have always been acquainted with sd Col- gerton as we were born & brought up near the to each other, are about of an age & lived in what is now called Franklin (which then belonged to Norwich) until he removed to Coventry in Tolland County which I should think was about forty years since - And further the deponent saith not.
Dudley Tracy

New London County ss. Novurik Dec 7 3 P.M. 1832
Then personally appeared Capt Dudley Tracy who has subscribed the foregoing deposition in my presence & made oath to the truth of the same
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Capt Dudley Tracy the aforesaid deponent & that he sustains a fair unblemished reputation for truth & veracity & that his statements are entitled to full credit & belief —
Sworn before me. John Hyde
I, THOMAS DAY, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern.
That John Hyde Esquire, before whom the foregoing Affidavit of Dudley Tracy was taken, is, and at the time of such caption, was, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of New London in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; that I verily believe the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine; and that full credence is due to his official acts and attestations.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the city of Hartford, in said State, the seventh day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-two.
Thomas Day

New London County ss Norwich Dec 3 rd 1832
Then personally appeared Capt Dudley Tracy who has subscribed the foregoing deposition in my presence & made oath to the truth of the same
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Capt Dudley Tracy the aforesaid deponent & that he sustains a fair unblemished reputation for truth & veracity & that his statements are entitled to full credit & belief —
sworn before me. John Hyde
Justice of the Peace

Letter from J. P. Smith Judge of Probate for Tolland District Court

Tolland Ct December 8th 1832
Dear Sir,
Herewith I return the Declaration of Abel Edgerton he has had his depositions taken over again in order that the ages of the deponents may appear and some reasons are shewn why the deponents their knees and now recollect the facts they swore to He has not procured the testimony of a clergyman to his belief of the services claimed of character etc Because the clergyman in this town (Tolland) has not been here but a little more than one year — and the clergyman in Country where he lived about forty years has been settled there but a few years & cannot possibly have any knowledge on the subject — The testimony of Capt Guggs & Mr Burnham I consider to be as good as the testimony of any two men in the Country that their character, for truth & veracity are above suspicion as much so as any clergyman in the Country and their means of knowledge vastly better than our clergy men generally as there is not a clergyman in this County that has been settled more than fourteen or fifteen years. — Mr Willey formerly a member of the U.S. Senate says he left the former Declaration of Abel Edgerton  the former Declaration of Edgerton in the War office at Washington with which was the Deposition of Capt Church Abel proving his (Edgerton's) service for one year in the Army of the Revolution. — Mr Willey says it was in the spring of 1830 that he left those papers in the War office —
Thinking so I conceive Edgerton has skilfully complied with every requirement of the law and the accompanying instructions of the Secretary — Nothing then remains objectionable unless it be the Probate Seal — and what shall be done with that.

must I get a new seal or will my certificate accompany ing each case as in this & the case of Abner Ashley I have done answer the purpose — I would thank you to inform me by letter as I wish not to jeopardize the interest of our Revolutionary Patriots for the trifling expense of a new probate seal — and will immediately do it if it must be done in order to assist them in obtain- ing their just rights —
Information on this subject is earnestly requested — I am with due Respect Your Obedient
servant
Jeremiah Parish
Hon. Lewis Cass Secy of War —
Mr. I supposed it would not be necessary for Emerton to file a new declaration but merely to furnish a more perfect statement of Proof as I think is done The deponents are both men of intelligence and good charac- ter for truth & I have no doubt of the truth of the facts they aver to —
J. Parish